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SXSW 2014: ‘Space Station 76’ is a look at the future we used to know

Space Station 76 begins with a narration musing on the impermanence and isolation of asteroidal paths. It’s the overarching metaphor in a film that is hilariously set in a nostalgic, 1970s version of the future and populated with hurt, dysfunctional, and yearning characters.

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‘Wrong’ Movie Review – an experiment in Kafkaesque storytelling

Wrong Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 An aptronym, or charactonym, is when a person’s profession or career is aptly expressed by their strangely befitting name. For example, if your name is Anita Baker and you become bread-monger, or if your name is Dan Druff and you become a barber, then this constitutes …

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Fantastic Fest 2012: ‘Wrong’ trite and tireless in pursuing the absurd

Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux (Rubber), Wrong initially intrigues in its refusal to conform to convention, but tirelessly wears out its viewer throughout all of its banal aimlessness. The film’s world becomes predictably baffling and increasingly dull as we embark on a bizarre …

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Fantasia 2012: ‘Wrong”s divisiveness makes it right for some, terribly wrong for others

Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux U.S.A., 2012 Two years ago writer and director Quentin Dupieux brought Rubber to Fantasia and the world at large, which told the story of an evil tire which rolled around and killed people. On one side of the film fan community it was hailed as clever, …

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